Prince Harry has recently been spotted with Camilla Thurlow, right. Some say Thurlow looks very much like Prince Harry's sister-in-law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, shown here in a file photo taken last April.David Rowland, AFP/Getty Images and www.halotrust.org
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Camilla Thurlow works for The HALO Trust, a charity that Prince Harry's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, also worked with before her death in 1997. www.halotrust.orgwww.halotrust.org
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Prince Harry and Cressida watch the match during the Six Nations International rugby Union match between England and Wales on March 9. Glyn Kirk, AFP/Getty Images.Glyn Kirk, AFP/Getty Images
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In this handout image, Prince Harry is seen with a deminer from The HALO Trust, a British charity dedicated to removal of landmines, on June 21, 2010 in Cahora Bassa, Mozambique. Prince Harry is following in his late mother's footsteps, Princess Diana, who visited the same charity in Angola eight months before her death. Prince Harry spent two days with the charity learning the first stages of landmine clearance and detonated mines himself under supervision from deminers. Handout Photo by The HALO Trust, Getty Images. Handout Photo by The HALO Trust, Getty Images
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Prince Harry will shortly be announcing his engagement to Cressida Bonas. We know this because fevered royal watchers have deemed it so. The evidence? ...

There’s a new woman in Prince Harry‘s life — and some seem to think she bears more than a passing resemblance to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

After parting ways with his long-time girlfriend, Cressida Bonas, at the end of April, Prince Harry has recently been seen with Camilla Thurlow, a former Miss Edinburgh.

While there is no official word about the relationship, the couple has reportedly been seen “in a clinch” (Daily Mail), “canoodling” (The Express) or engaging in “innocent kissing” (examiner.com), depending on your source.

But whether it was clinching, canoodling or kissing, the two definitely seem to have been spotted together at the posh Tonteria nightclub in London, owned by Prince Harry’s good friend Guy Pelly.

(And what lady wouldn’t be impressed by a date who romances her at a place where, according to Time Out London, “loads of money has clearly been spent making the bar look like the slightly ramshackle underground lair of a Juarense drug cartel.”)

As for Miss Thurlow, she does appear to have a pedigree that would appeal to Prince Harry. Not only is she sporty — an online bio says she has a degree in sport and exercise science — but she also works for The HALO Trust, of which Prince Harry was once patron.

According to the charity’s website, it “clears landmines and unexploded ordnance from war-torn countries so that some of the world’s most vulnerable people can plant their crops, rebuild their homes and raise their families in safety.”

The site also says that Prince Harry’s mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, had a relationship with HALO — shortly before her death she made a much-publicized visit to Angola to visit minefields being cleared by HALO.

According to a 2012 story in the Mirror, citing a palace spokesman, “Prince Harry takes a keen and active interest in HALO’s work.”

And now, perhaps, even more so.

According to HALO’s website, Thurlow joined the organization in 2013 after training in Sri Lanka. She then went on to work as its projects officer for the HALO Cambodia program.

Claims that Thurlow is the Duchess’s doppelgänger may be a bit dubious, but several reports have made note of the similarities between the two.

The Scottish Thurlow “has long brown hair and brown eyes, and is a dead ringer for Harry’s sister-in-law Kate Middleton,” notes entertainmentwise.com.

Thurlow has also apparently competed in the Miss Earth pageant when she was just 18. The contest’s website indicates she attended Loughborough University and that her proudest achievement was representing Scotland in the U19 World Lacrosse Championships in Canada (she also took part in a canoeing expedition at Loch Ness).

“For me, sport dominated my school career, however I was also a member of the school choir and performed in the house play Steel Magnolias. I have always been a keen participant in everything that I do so I feel my main talent is my ability to get involved. I’ve always loved sport and outdoors activity and this has allowed me to develop my talent in those areas further giving me the privilege of having some exciting experiences,” she is quoted as saying on the Miss Earth website. “I would like, one day, to settle down but my main ambition is to always try and enjoy life and get as much out of it as I can and to be happy.”

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